Noel, take it easy.  BB is correct.  I was not referring to anyone in particular.  Something that I read in passing and not noting who that individual was.  Strange things do happen.  I had an automatic update to IE8 install on one of my computers and the machine refused to boot up into Windows.  At that point, I would have assumed that the HD died.  Nope, was able to boot into safe mode, remove the offending update, and was able to reboot normally afterwards.